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@shaz - cheers man, yeah i forgot and started painting but I will.

@privatebenjimin - cheers man, really appreciated.

I’m back

As i mentioned in my other thread I’ve been moving out and settling down but I’m now back on the horse.

I’m trying to improve my painting skills on the figures so I’m going to try and paint a few old school more complex camo schemes. 1st up necromundian 8th regiment. Inspired by captain browns army.






I've made progress on the APC's, painted the camo and the metals, just got to do some highlighting, screens, tyres, wreathing, sand...

APC's done

Finished the APC's to a level i'm happy with, they haven't been mudded or covered in battle damage but there painted to a playable level.





The 1st one has more going on as i was trying to make it more GW, so its got a few extra aquilas and a light.











The second one I wanted more uniform and think look better, apart from i lost a tyre. Well done me.

Great paint scheme you have going on here. Loving the tanks!

Incredibly nitpicky but I think you may have the first two wheels on this APC the wrong way round




Also If you are looking for good weathering stuff I swear by FW weathering powders and also a little bit of sponge for chips and battle damage.

Keep up the good work!

 Commander Cain wrote:
Great paint scheme you have going on here. Loving the tanks!

Incredibly nitpicky but I think you may have the first two wheels on this APC the wrong way round




Also If you are looking for good weathering stuff I swear by FW weathering powders and also a little bit of sponge for chips and battle damage.

Keep up the good work!

Opps! Hahaha! That's fantastic I'm so glad you noticed that, I'm really not sure how long it would have taken me to realise.
Thanks for kind words, hard to find a dessert camo that works for me. Thanks for the sponge tip, reminded me i need to get one, not sure i can afford weathering powder from fw, I imagine its quite costly.

Damn, that's a lot of BTR tanks ... want to collect a metal Mordian Iron Guard army to go with it?

Really like the finished product sa. Excellent work.

@PrivateBenjamin - Cheers man, its only two btw haha. Hmm... why? have you got one to sell haha? I'm thinking about getting some shocktroopers as you know anyway. Although I've just given myself loads more work todo before i start with that.

@Gitzsplitts - Thanks man, now I think about it they took a long time haha. One of the 1st things on this blog infact.

Reinforcements have arrived

So even though I've still got 3 tanks to paint and 1 squad could do with a repaint, I've gone ahead and spent money I shouldn't have on pretty much another whole army! I bought one used force and a couple of tanks of ebay (curse you late night drunk ebay shopping!), and a brand new start collecting astra militarium box. This gives me a total count of this perchance at:

2 more russ's
3 chimera
4 heavy weapons squads
45 gaurdsmen
1 commissar





The idea for the chimeras is to modify them with swap-able turrets on the rear hatches to make them into basilisks/hydras/wyverns when needed.



One of the tanks is going to become the new Pask with a Punisher and melta-cannons and the other the same or autocannons.





Not sure about the troops, may just sell them on, might strip them down and practice painting with them, try and get to a level where i could do commissions maybe. But atm i don't really have much use for them as I got another 20 or so from my friend a while back and i don't really use blobs.

Anyway thought i would share my latest loot and plans, hopefully I'll make a star next week as I'm away all weekend.

The stripping begins!

The painting on these guys is a bit thick to paint over so I wanted to strip them down, read a few tutorials on here but most of them were from the states, where its much easier to get nasty chemicals, and besides we have different brands over here. So i did a little more research and found this http://gravengames.co.uk/stripping-paint-from-warhammer-and-other-miniatures-using-dettol/ and it said to use Dettol antiseptic, so i went and got myselft a bottle (£3.50) and liberated a toothbrush from the bathroom, switching to wooden ones now anyway (better for the environment apparently).



Then I found an appropriate container and put my men to soak. (will be good to get all that battlefield mud off them anyway). Me being impatient as always i waited a whole 10mins before i gave one of them a scrubbing and almost all of the paint came off! going to leave them over night and come back to them and see how well there doing, I'm expecting them to be quite easy from what I've experienced so far. Top marks for Dettol so far.

Not bad for only a 10 minute de-painting!

@Gwyn chan 'r Gwyll - Yeah no I was impressed.

Results of the Dettol bath

I scrubbed them up with gloves on (plastic bags), then soaked them in warm water and scrubbed them down with fairy liquid. I had 35 blokes to do and did them in two halfs, by the time I was doing the second half i wasn't putting as much time into the scrubbing and I did notice there where small beads of paint everywhere, but after the primer it was fine.





I picked out 10 guys that where built well and removed the scree lines and primed them up for painting.

Wow, you enjoy a challenge eh!



Keep up the great work, are the tanks going to be painted similar to the APC's ?

@private Benjamin - Yeah, I have a habit of biting off more than i can chew & then starting another project half way through.

That was the plan but I'm already board of this scheme so I was thinking i might try something like this



And then something combining the two on some of the russes. Red and tan on the boss manybe and white and tan on the plasma russ... If I ever get there.

I do like that two tone camo pattern- makes the whole color scheme more lively. Nothing wrong with single color paint schemes, of course- but I feel that they need good weathering and rusting, otherwise the fine details kind of fade into the carpet, as it were. Stay focused!

@meer_cat - Thanks, I just got all my painted minis together (painted in the same scheme that is) as I hadn't done it yet; and i was bloody pleased with the look so far! Nice to have some of an army looking coherent for a change haha! Wanting the rest of the army looking like this will keep me focused now, thanks!

I would say I noticed a lack of weathering though, I must attack them with a sponge!

Had to take a pic though...

Hey man, good to see that your back to giving the guard some love!
cool to see the group shot of all the painted dudes together, best of luck with the new project!

@stg - cheers man, good to be back at it tbf! Yeah, thanks I still keeping sine soviet themes but I just stole the name from the book tbf, not really doing it by the book.

How’s the 404 doing? I will have a look at your thread.

They blend with the carpet so well... nearly invisible!

@gitz - cheers mate, it’s there natural habitat.

Ebay rescue pips

So this is where I am currently with the stuff I got from ebay, half of that squad is ALMOST painted. I just need to do there camo. I've painted these in the Necromudian 8th spiders because I ever since cpt browns blog I've really liked them; the colour scheme works and is radically different to the vanilla Canadians. And as i'm trying to push my painting skills they seemed like a good start as there fun to paint and they looked really hard to do.

Think the photos need zooming in on to get any detail.











Think its time I get a light box and a better camera...

Just a little up date, started blocking out the 2nd half of the necromundian squad.



And i bought a squad of steel legion after all that talk about them.

More wips
1st up the necromudians, done all of the painting on these guys except the camo, nice to see the whole squad looking together.



Also got my tanks out and started cleaning some of them up by stripping of the extras. Mocked up the punnisher and gave its scoop to the 3rd chimera. I also swapped the chermas bolter for a flamer so the all have flamers aswell as scoops.





Cheers for looking.

the brown on the necromundans boots is a real nice touch.
Your painting skills are definiteyl getting better, they look cool as!

stonned_astartes,

The Necromundians are looking good. Far superior to your test, so your aim to improve your painting is definitely paying off.

Cheers,

CB - Fellow Necromundian Guard Player

@STG - Thanks mate, means a lot to have my progress noticed. Actually got that part of the uniform from Captain brown.

@Captain Brown - What an honer sir Yes, the new guys where done after watching a few more painting vids, and careful study of your army of course. Thanks for the comet.

I've actually just finished the camo on the squad, I made it a lot smaller this time. Took about 3 hours too do the 10 men as i carefully selected where every stripe would go. Hopefully just some basing and maybe a few lights to do and they should be done!



And I'm also half way through soaking the russ in deltol. However I've come up against a problem, when I'm washing the gunk off it leaves so much paint gunk on the tooth brush it smears it back on to the model in the final stages of cleaning! I have a feeling the detol is to saturated maybe and either need straining or just throwing away.

For the love of mike, mate get some Isopropyl Alcohol. Or Methylated spirits, works faster and cleaner.

@Cam - I didn't know, I didn't know!

Yeah bud. You don't have to soak the items, just take a little care, but a toothbrush and scrub straight off bud. Residue evaporates off too.

Also, don't ever introduce water into the mix, there's some sort of reaction and it makes the paint gunky, sticky, and glue like, like you're experiencing. You have to rinse in either more dettol, or isopropyl otherwise it's a proper ballache.

stonned_astartes,

I think it is time to replace your cleaner.

My two cents,

CB

Ah fair enough, I've just tried scrubbing some guys with some Isopropyl Alcohol in spray form I had sitting around for cleaning electrical components and the stuff. Didn't seem to work as well but might be easier if it wasn't in spray form. But thanks for the advice about the water, won't do that again! I will get some more cleaning solution as well and have another scrub. Cheers for the help on this guys.

On another note I based the squad.